Dry

This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?

The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.

The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.

It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West. […] Experts say the smallest towns are especially vulnerable. And few places in Utah are as tiny or dry as Echo, a jumble of homes squeezed between a freight railroad and stunning red-rock cliffs.

This well is as dry as that cow.

[A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.

Dry alcohol is 200 proof.

Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.

Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.

Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest. Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry[…]

You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.

These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.

Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.

Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet. James Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.

Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.

a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject

A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.

Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest. Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry […]

Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.

But there we were given only the dullest, driest, pemmicanised forms like The Student's Hume, Once I had a hundred pages of The Student's Hume as a holiday task.

Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.

This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.

never dry fire a bow

dry humping her girlfriend

making a dry run

dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches

A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.

[…] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.

When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]

Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]

Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.

Fa la la la Fa la la lee Now let me go, my honey oh back to Tennessee It's beefsteak when I'm workin, whiskey when I'm dry, and sweet heaven when I die

I would have mee tai mak (short, thick noodles), either in soup or dry, with fishballs, pork balls or yong tau foo at this noodles shop near my house.

This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.

[…] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]

[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.

All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.

Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?

Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).

The clothes dried on the line.

The fruit dried in the dehydrator.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.

An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”

In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.

Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them.

The general principle here is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (HTOO). If you duplicate information in two or more places, sooner or later, you'll forget to update one of the copies […]